"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"graham" wrote in message
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This morning, someone asked, via a radio program, whether he could keep
bees in the city. The Bylaw Officer said that they are classed as
livestock and therefore forbidden. I used to and a friend does still.
The only one that complained was frightened by the bees drinking the
seepage on her hot-tub! A jar of honey cured that!

I supposed if one called them pets, and named each one Eric, one could
get around the by-law{;-)

To be accurate you'd have to call (most of them) Ethel. All the workers
are females, there are very few males (drones) and the queen isn't one. As
you must know .

You must also know that Eric was 'alf a bee ... :-)

I'm sorry you can't legally keep bees on your property, everyone's losing
out!

During the summer, they used to kept on a farm on the outskirts of the city.
Those fields are now covered with houses. They were overwintered, wrapped
in insulation, in the back garden. There was a warm spell in late Oct one
year and the best hive (250lb yield) died from overheating.
Graham